Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Andy Hazel, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
Cooper is a former astronaut who has resigned himself to life on a farm, raising his two children Tom and Murph. However, when the fates align to send Cooper back out into space, he finds himself faced with the terrible choice to leave his kids behind with no idea of when – or even if – he might return.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 29th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 26th February 2021.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
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- Chris Evangelista at /Film argues that Interstellar is Christopher Nolan’s emotional masterpiece, July 2017.
- Ben Travis at Empire argues that Interstellar is Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece, August 2020.
- Neal Pollack at Book and Film Globe reflects on the “sad astronaut” genre, December 2019.
- Jesse Hassenger at The Verge reflects on the decade of the “superstar astronaut”, October 2019.
- Drew Taylor at IndieWire discusses the debate over whether Bane’s voice was remastered for The Dark Knight Rises, July 2012.
- Leo Barraclough at Variety discusses Christopher Nolan’s use of sound in his films, September 2020.
- Julia Greenberg at Wired reports on how Interstellar was so big that it almost broke IMAX, November 2014.
- Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker and Mark Weingarten talk to The Hollywood Reporter about the controversial sound mix on Interstellar, February 2015.
- Christopher Nolan talks to IndieWire about his surprise at the response to the sound mixing on Interstellar, November 2020.
- Germain Lussier at /Film reports on theatres warning patrons about the sound mix in Interstellar, November 2014.
- Christopher Nolan talks to SyFy Wire about shooting TENET in IMAX, September 2020.
- Darren Mooney writes at The Escapist about how Christopher Nolan became the internet’s villain, December 2020.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist discusses the way in which the internet has turned on Christopher Nolan, December 2020.
- Rotten Tomatoes ranks the films of Christopher Nolan, August 2020.
- Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline reports on the box office success of the Chinese re-release of Interstellar, August 2020.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes reports on the popularity of Interstellar in China, August 2020.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes reports on Interstellar as a unicorn, a massively successful wholly original blockbuster, August 2020.
- Greg Kot at The Chicago Tribune discusses the debate over the Beatles’ White Album, November 2018.
- Dorian Lynskey at BBC argues for The White Album as the Beatles’ best, November 2018.
- Peter Sciretta at /Film looks at the evolution of Interstellar from a Steven Spielberg movie to a Christopher Nolan movie, November 2014.
- Tom Shone profiles Christopher Nolan for The Guardian, November 2014.
- Christopher Nolan talks to Variety about his experiences making Interstellar, October 2014.
- Christopher Nolan talks to The Playlist about the myth of him “saving” cinema, August 2020.
- Darren Mooney discusses at The Escapist about how time is the ultimate enemy in any Christopher Nolan film, May 2020.
- Christopher Nolan talks to NPR about why time is a recurring fixation within his films, December 2020.
- Anna Klassen at Bustle discusses Nolan’s approach to his female characters, October 2014.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist discusses the evolving portrayal of women in the films of Christopher Nolan, September 2020.
- Hans Zimmer talks to The Hollywood Reporter about his collaborations with Christopher Nolan, November 2014.
- The first trailer for Interstellar, December 2013.
- Alyssa Rosenberg at The Washington Post discusses the use of Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl footage in Interstellar, November 2014.
- Ned Hepburn at Esquire discusses the Americana of Interstellar, November 2014.
- Christopher Nolan discusses Interstellar in terms of Andrei Tarkovsky and Terrence Malick with IndieWire, November 2014.
- Christopher Hooton at The Independent discusses Nolan’s selling of the corn grown on the set of Interstellar, October 2014.
- Mike Cecchini at Den of Geek discusses the parallels between Interstellar and Man of Steel, November 2019.
- Darren Mooney writes about the evolving portrayal of rural America within the Superman mythos at The Escapist, February 2021.
- David Rohde at The New Yorker discusses the ways in which conspiracy theories have taken root in modern American pop culture, October 2020.
- Kurt Andersen at The Atlantic discusses how the United States lost its grip on reality, September 2017.
- Abigail Bassett at Shondaland reports on the new rise of anti-intellectualism in the United States, November 2020.
- David Macriotra at Salon reports on the tradition of anti-intellectualism in popular discourse, May 2020.
- Megan McCluskey at Time reports on how much money the United States has spent rescuing Matt Damon, December 2015.
- Rory Carroll reports on Matt Damon’s pandemic stay in Ireland for The Guardian, May 2020.
- Jennifer Hyland Wang at The Cinema Journal discusses Forrest Gump as a mediation on the legacy of the sixties, Spring 2000.
- Alyssa Rosenberg at The Atlantic discusses the wave of sixties nostalgia that came with Mad Men, Playboy Club and Pan Am, September 2011.
- Darren Mooney at The Journal discusses the arrival of Interstellar amid a wave of sixties nostalgia, November 2014.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog discusses the shift from sixties to seventies nostalgia in the middle of the decade, August 2016.
- Craig D. Reid at The Film Files discusses the “neo-nostalgia” of the decade, August 2015.
- Tiffany Li at MSNBC discusses how crypto-currency fads are destroying the planet, March 2021.
- Chris Lee at Vulture reports on the scramble inside Hollywood to secure a COVID-19 vaccine, February 2021.
- Ollie Williams at Forbes discusses the rich and powerful skipping the vaccine queues, January 2021.
- Luna Shyr at Atlas Obscura on the majesty and complexity of the great organ, September 2020.
- Theo van Wyk at The Conversation discusses the organ and its place in culture, August 2017.
- Maddy Shaw Roberts at Classic FM discusses the use of the organ in Interstellar, September 2020.
- Katy Kilkenny at The Atlantic discusses the importance of the power and majesty of the organ in Interstellar, November 2014.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist discusses TENET and Interstellar as two sides of the same coin, September 2020.
- Megan Garber at The Atlantic discusses the religious and spiritual subtext of Interstellar, November 2014.
- David Crow at Den of Geek discusses Interstellar as a secular end times myth, April 2015.
- Rowan Righelato at The Guardian compares and contrasts Interstellar and 2001: A Space Odyssey, November 2014.
- T.R. Witcher at Salon discusses the influence of 2001: A Space Odyssey on Interstellar, November 2014.
- Chris Evangelista at /Film discusses Steven Spielberg’s work on A.I. and Minority Report in the shadow of Stanley Kubrick, April 2020.
- Andrew Pulver at The Guardian compares Christopher Nolan to Stanley Kubrick, July 2010.
- Andrew Pulver at The Guardian reflects on the comparison between Christopher Nolan and Stanley Kubrick, July 2017.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog explores the comparison between Christopher Nolan and Stanley Kubrick, July 2017.
- Jeff Jensen at Entertainment Weekly discusses the emotionality of Interstellar, October 2014.
- Oliver Lyttelton at IndieWire reflects on the importance of parenthood as a theme in Christopher Nolan’s movies, November 2014.
- Kelly Konda at We Minored in Film reflects on the weird early drafts of Interstellar, November 2014.
- Jonathan Nolan talks to IndieWire about how the finished film differs from his original script for Interstellar, March 2015.
- Matthew McConaughey talks to IndieWire about Christopher Nolan’s affection for Mud, February 2014.
- Rachel Syme at The New Yorker discusses the “McConaissance”, January 2014.
- Natalie Zutter at Tor.com discusses the infamous “love” speech from Interstellar, November 2014.
- Tasha Robinson at NPR discusses the “sad puppy” reactionary movement against the increasingly progressive Hugos, August 2015.
- Amy Wallace at Wired discusses the battle within science-fiction about the genre’s future, August 2015.
- Erik Kain at Forbes examines GamerGate’s obsession with “objective reviews”, December 2014.
- Adam Rogers at Wired looks at how the modelling of black holes for Interstellar led to actual scientific breakthroughs, October 2014.
- Kirsten Acuna at Business Insider looks at how TARS and CASE were realised on Interstellar, March 2015.
- Bill Irwin talks to Entertainment Weekly about bringing TARS to life, March 2015.
- Chris Elena talks to Seventh Row about making his movie, Audio Guide, January 2015.
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